In response to the buzz on the Web, Amazon posted a
short statement on its customer forum that casts some doubt on the original
story. (Update: Reportedly, access to
the account has been mysteriously restored. No word on that from Amazon
yet.)

Either way, the incident fomented some
anti-digital-rights-management sentiment on the Web, with many on Twitter and
email lists discussing how DRM makes the alleged action by Amazon a possibility
and ways of getting around it. Some even went so far as to advocate breaking DRM
and taking the files out of the Amazon ecosystem.